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Reviewers for Review Santa Fe

Confirmed Reviewers for 2005 - to date
(Subject to change)

Andy Adams   · Website
Editor
Flak Photo
Andy Adams is the editor / publisher of FlakPhoto.com, a contemporary photography website that celebrates the culture of image-making by promoting the discovery of artists from around the world. An online gallery and social media magazine, the site provides opportunities for a global community of artists and photo organizations to share new series work, book projects, and gallery exhibitions with a web- based photography audience. Recent features include 3030 Press' New Photography in China, Humble Arts Foundation's 31 Under 31: Young Women in Art Photography, Hamburger Eyes Photo Magazine's Inside Burgerworld, the Photographic Resource Center's EXPOSURE: The Annual PRC Juried Exhibition, Big City Press' Hijacked, Volume One: Australia & America, Center's Review Santa Fe 2009, David Wright + Ethan Jones' Pause to Begin, the Center for Fine Art Photography's 2009 International Exhibition, Blurb's Photography.Book.Now and the Magenta Foundation's Flash Forward: Emerging Photographers 2009. Andy is interested in reviewing fine art, portrait and documentary work and can offer artists professional advice in using the Internet, social media and online marketing strategies to promote their work online.

Anthony Bannon   · Website
Director
George Eastman House
Anthony Bannon is the seventh director of George Eastman House, the International Museum of Photography and Film. Prior to his appointment in 1996, Bannon was Assistant Vice President of Cultural Affairs at the State University of New York College at Buffalo, the largest college in the State University System, and Director of its Burchfield Penney Art Center. He has worked as a critic, filmmaker, and educator. His book, Photo Pictorialists of Buffalo, won the American Photographic Historical Society's merit award. His writing on deafness won the Gallaudet University Award. Phaidon Press recently published his book on the photographer Steve McCurry. He is willing to review any type of photography.

Claudia Bohn-Spector
Independent Curator
Claudia Bohn-Spector, an independent writer and curator in South Pasadena, CA, received her Ph.D in art history from the University of Munich. She has organized numerous photography exhibitions, most recently a critically acclaimed survey of Los Angeles photography at the Huntington Library, entitled This Side of Paradise: Body and Landscape in L.A. Photographs (with Jennifer A. Watts). With Watts, she also organized Envisioning Eden: Water and the Selling of L.A. (1997) and The Great Wide Open: Panoramic Photographs of the American West (2001), which received the top exhibition catalog award from the American Library Association in 2002. At the Getty Research Institute, she helped direct the international research and exhibition project Imaging the City: The Formation and Display of Urban Identities in the Americas, and authored August Sander: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum (2000). She is currently curating (with Sam Mellon) "Speaking in Tongues: The Art of Wallace Berman and Robert Heinecken," to open at the Armorny Center for the Arts in Pasadena in September 2011, and "WRONG: Rules and Irreverence in American Art, 1945 to 1975," a visual arts blog and exhibition for a future museum venue, among other curatorial and editorial projects. She is interested in reviewing work that is fresh, provocative, independent, and critically engages contemporary artistic, political, and social issues.

David Bram   · Website
Co-Founder
Fraction Magazine
David Bram is a fine art photographer and co-founder of Fraction Magazine, an online venue dedicated to fine art photography. Fraction was created to promote the work of established artists as well as emerging artists side by side. Fraction is published on a monthly basis, with a bi-monthly group show featuring guest curators. David is interested in seeing cohesive portfolios that are expertly produced and ready for promotion. Although not interested in seeing commercial work, David and Fraction Magazine maintain an open mind and have a true love of photography.

Jane Brown   · Website
National Accounts Director
D.A.P. West
Jane Brown has worked in book publishing for 23 years; she's played a role in the publishing and marketing of hundreds of books. Since 2002 she's been the National Accounts Director for the New York based publisher and distributor D.A.P. (Distributed Art Publishers) and she directs the west coast satellite office. She co-edited Looking at Los Angeles, published by Metropolis Books in 2006, and was a juror for the AIGA 50 Books/50 covers 2008. Prior to D.A.P. Jane worked at Harry N. Abrams. She is interested in reviewing potential book projects.

Marilyn Cadenbach   · Website
Director
Marilyn Cadenbach
Marilyn Cadenbach is one of the photography industrys leading commercial representatives. A passion for photography and an understanding of the challenges involved in marketing ones own work inspired Ms. Cadenbach to create her company. As an agent for commercial photographers, she draws on her marketing background and her business instincts and expertise. Ms. Cadenbach currently represents eight photographers who are based in the U.S. and Europe. The work of these photographers has appeared in major magazines such as the New York Times Magazine, ESPN, GQ, Esquire, O Magazine, Metropolitan Home, People and Fortune, as well as in advertising campaigns for clients such as Acura, Adidas, BMW, General Electric, General Foods, KRAFT, Lexus, Mazda China, Microsoft, Nike, Oakley, Ocean Spray, Reebok, Reuters, TaylorMade, The International Olympic Committee and the U.S. Department of Defense. In addition to her focus on the commercial aspect of photography, Ms. Cadenbach maintains an ardent interest in the fine art of photography. Marilyn Cadenbach has offices in New York City and Venice, California.

Kathleen Clark   · Website
Co- Director
Clark | Oshin Gallery
Co-Director of Clark | Oshin Gallery in Los Angeles, Kathleen Clark is the former longtime Photo Editor at Los Angeles magazine and LA Weekly. She holds an MFA in Studio Art (Photography) from UC Irvine and has received numerous awards in editorial photography and design, as well as fine art fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and Seattle, Portland and Oregon arts commissions. In addition she taught several courses in photography at Art Center College of Design and at USC and was the Artistic Director at The Womans Building and Publicist at The Northwest Film Center at The Portland Art Museum. She has served the Palm Springs Photo Festival as a portfolio reviewer for four years. She is interested in reviewing editorial and fine art photography.

Shelley de Soto   · Website
Director
de Soto Gallery
Shelley is the owner and director of De Soto Gallery, specializing in contemporary photography and new media. Previously, she held the position of Director at the Stephen Cohen Gallery in Los Angeles. She writes  I am most interested in seeing bodies of work that are intended for a gallery and I can also help you put your book together so that it appeals to photo editors. I like conceptual work that is visually compelling.

Crista Dix   · Website
Director
wall space
Crista has had diverse careers as a scientist, artist and businesswoman. She has worked in the Pacific Northwest photographic community for the last 10 years as a photographer, teacher and advisor, working with artists to refine their creative vision. Crista has been a member of panels and discussions on topics as varied as Women in Photography, and the Future of Digital Photography and the Arts. wall space opened in 2004 focusing on and promoting new and emerging artists looking to incorporate photography into a larger vision. The gallery works with artists utilizing photography as a creative element, telling stories on multiple levels. Crista is interested in seeing bodies of work that cross the lines of the traditional image, transcending process or technique.

Ciara Ennis   · Website
Director/Curator
Pitzer Art Galleries
Ciara Ennis (M.A., Royal College of Art, London, UK) is the Director/Curator of Pitzer Art Galleries at Pitzer College and was the Curator of Exhibitions, UCR/California Museum of Photography, particularly of Still, Things Fall From the Sky (2005), Ruby Satellite (2006), and Eloi: Stumbling Towards Paradise (2007). Ennis moved from London to Los Angeles where she was Project Director for Public Offerings, an international survey of contemporary art, at MOCA, Los Angeles, 2001. From there she became Associate Curator at the Santa Monica Museum of Art, where she initiated the Project Room and programmed a series of experimental exhibitions with such artists as Urs Fischer, Simon Leung, Mark Leckey, Johan Grimonprez, and Eduardo Sarabia. From the numerous exhibitions that Ennis has curated over the past ten years she has gained a thorough understanding of the issues and concerns surrounding exhibition practice and contemporary art. Her main priority as a curator is to find the most appropriate platform for the presentation of an artists work, to assist in the promotion of their ideas and vision and provide a relevant context for their practice within the traditions of visual culture. During her tenure at UCR/California Museum of Photography, she focused on expanding the definitions of what could be shown within the confines of a photographic museum. She is interested in viewing work that is critically engaged and not overly preoccupied with technique, work that explores narrative, representation and identity.

Taj Forer   · Website
Editor
Daylight Magazine
Taj Forer is a photographer, editor and teacher who is represented by Yossi Milo and SENDA galleries. He received his MFA in Photography from UNC-Chapel Hill (where he is currently a Lecturer in the Department of Art) and his BA from Sarah Lawrence College. Currently, he also serves as a Lecturer in the Department of Art at the City University of New York. Forer is a Founding Editor of Daylight Magazine, the celebrated biannual publication of contemporary documentary photography. While Forer is interested in reviewing all types of photography, his is particularly interested in projects that engage a documentary approach to image-making.

Virginia Heckert   · Website
Associate Curator of Photographs
J.Paul Getty Museum
Virginia Heckert is an Associate Curator in the Department of Photographs at the J. Paul Getty Museum, where she has organized exhibitions from the permanent collection featuring the work of Mary Ellen Mark, Bill Owens, Anthony Hernandez and Donald Blumberg (Public Faces/Private Spaces) and Sigmar Polke, and is currently organizing exhibitions on August Sander and Bernd and Hilla Becher. She was the inaugural Curator of Photography at the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach, Florida, from 2001 to 2005, and also worked extensively in Germany while completing graduate degrees in art history with an emphasis in the history of photography through the University of California at Santa Barbara and Columbia University, New York. She welcomes the opportunity to view work by photographers who engage with the rich history of the medium and/or broader concerns of contemporary art.

Jason Houston   · Website
Picture Editor
Orion Magazine
Jason Houston has spent nearly two decades working in editorial and NGO photography, including over 15 years as an independent documentary photographer focused on social and environmental issues www.jasonhouston.com and for the last six years as picture editor for Orion magazine (www.orionmagazine.org). He offers review participants experience in developing projects for editorial and NGO clients, packaging and pitching photo stories and collaborations to magazines, and making a life doing meaningful work. He is interested in seeing issue based projects of all types (journalistic to conceptual) at all levels of development. If you want to discuss working with Orion please be sure to review several recent back issues.

Joanna Hurley   · Website
HurleyMedia
President
Joanna Hurley has thirty years experience in book publishing. Although her specialty is marketing, she was trained initially as an editor at Thomas Y. Crowell/Harper & Row, and is knowledgeable about all aspects of the business. She is currently president of HurleyMedia LLC, which provides publicity and marketing services to publishers, authors, photographers, and arts organizations. Prior to starting HurleyMedia in 1994, she was marketing director of the University of New Mexico Press, and director of publicity at Vintage Books, a division of Knopf. Joanna has worked on a variety of books throughout her career, including intellectual non-fiction, literary fiction, and business titles. In addition, she has worked on over fifty photography books, on artists such as Irving Penn, Dorothea Lange, Van Deren Coke, Eliot Porter, Bernard Plossu, Richard Misrach, Mark Klett, and many others. She is the president of the board of Center, formerly The Santa Fe Center for Photography.

Ann M. Jastrab   · Website
Gallery Director
Rayko Photo Center
Ann M. Jastrab is the gallery director at RayKo Photo Center located in the SOMA arts district in San Francisco near SFMOMA and the Yerba Buena Arts Center. Rayko is a community photographic facility with galleries, rental darkrooms, studio, and digital labs that has been serving the Bay Area for over 20 years. The Main Gallery presents eight to ten exhibitions yearly with many nationally recognized artists; there is also a section of the gallery called The Marketplace which is reserved for Bay Area artists and displays a wide variety of photographic work. She is always looking for new artists for the gallery, both for solo shows and group shows. She is most interested in seeing fine art photography, alternative processes and historical process work, and also work made with traditional film cameras as well as plastic and pinhole cameras.

Christy Karpinski   · Website
Editor
F-Stop magazine
Christy Karpinski is the founder and editor of F-Stop Magazine, an online photography magazine that promotes contemporary photography from established and emerging photographers from around the world with the intent to inspire and support a community of artists. Christy has a background in Women's Studies and Sociology as well as an MFA in photography. She teaches photography at Columbia College Chicago. Christy is most interested in reviewing fine art photography and documentary projects but is open to seeing any kind of work. She writes I can offer photographers feedback on images, editing, sequencing, the visual literacy of the images, print quality, as well as advice on using the internet and online venues to promote your work and build a community of photography peers.

Eric Keller   · Website
Director
Soulcatcher Studio
Gallery Director Eric J. Keller has been involved in nearly every aspect of the art and business of photography for the past three decades. Since 2002 he has owned and operated Soulcatcher Studio, a gallery of photographic masterworks based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Soulcatcher Studio specializes in 20th century photo-documentary studies and the classic American landscape. Mr. Kellers background includes research consultant work for a number of fine art photography publications, including the acclaimed monograph, Edward Curtis: The Master Prints by Clark Worswick. Most recently he served as a contributing writer for the upcoming revised edition of the essential reference volume, The Photograph Collector's Guide (Aperture, 2009). Keller has also served on the Board of Directors for Blue Earth Alliance, a non-profit 501(c)3 corporation dedicated to supporting photographic projects that educate the public about threatened cultures, endangered environments, and other social concerns. Soulcatcher Studio serves to advance public understanding of and appreciation for photography and create opportunities for regional and national artists to present their work. Mr. Keller is most interested in reviewing uniquely conceived and executed work with the intention of expanding his stable of artists in the coming year.

Carol LeFlufy   · Website
President
Eye Forward, Inc
Carol worked for fifteen years with Art + Commerce which represented over twenty photographers. She represented Richard Burbridge, Mary Ellen Mark, Perry Ogden, Frank Ockenfels, Taryn Simon, Ellen von Unwerth and Max Vadukul. In addition to becoming the president of the company, she helped the company develop Anthology their stock and licensing division. Carol moved to Los Angeles in 2004 and opened the successful photography agency Eye Forward and is now representing Sam Jones , Christopher Wray-McCann, Patrik Giardino and Frank Ockenfels. In addition to being a photographer Carol is also a collector of photography and photography books and has taught at the International Center of Photography in New York, The Center for Photography in Woodstock NY as well as Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. As well as the passion for photography, Carol has superlative interpersonal skills, a deep knowledge of the business of photography, and of the fashion and journalism worlds, and an international network of clients, friends and contacts. Carol would prefer to review artists work that can bridge art and commercial work and that is unique and challenging.

Maren Levinson   · Website
President
Redeye Represents
Maren Levinson founded Redeye in 2005 as a photo agency that supports photographers with both fine art and commercial careers. The idea being that when a photographer's fine art work is noticed, they become more commercially viable, and when a photographer has a strong commercial and editorial base, they have more freedom to pursue their personal projects. Maren currently represents 5 west coast photographers, each with their own distinct photographic voice. She enjoys helping photographers see their work more clearly and communicating what they do best to interested parties. Before starting Redeye, Maren was a photo editor at Mother Jones Magazine, the founding photo editor at Dwell Magazine, the photo director for an issue of Big, and a consultant for Chow and GOOD Magazines. She is interested in viewing contemporary work of any kind.

Walter Mason   · Website
Director
Haggerty Museum of Art
Wally Mason is the Director of the Haggerty Museum of Art at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The Haggerty is an academic art museum that hosts 9-12 exhibitions annually. Recent and upcoming photography exhibitions include Stephen Shore: The Biographical Landscape; Persian Visions: Contemporary Photography from Iran; Lucinda Devlin: The Omega Suites; Barbara Morgan: The Montages; Stella Johnson: Al Sol and Place is Paramount: Photographys Romance with Architecture. From 1996-2007 he was the director of the University of Maine Museum of Art. He has curated over 90 exhibitions, most recently: Whatever is There is a Truth: Robert Rauschenbergs Prints; Berenice Abbott: Cities Portraits; Prospect of Light: Plastic and Pinhole Images; Jocelyn Lee: Youth; Millions Taken Daily: Photographs from Everyone and Everywhere; Drawing as Thinking; John Marins Maine; Richard Estes: Recent Prints; Witty, Sexy, Gimmicky: British Pop Art; Being Where: Looking Into Landscape and The Potential Self: Portrait as Signifier. Mason holds a BA from Beloit College and an MFA from Indiana University. Mr. Mason is most interested in reviewing bodies of resolved work suitable for exhibition with no restrictions regarding style or content. He is not interested in reviewing work directed towards advertising or stock applications. He can offer photographers exhibition opportunities including solo and group exhibitions. The museum does acquire photography for its permanent collection

Carol McCusker   · Website
Curator of Photography
Museum of Photographic Arts
Carol McCusker is Curator of Photography at the Museum of Photographic Arts (MoPA), San Diego. She received her B.F.A. in studio art at Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, and her M.A. and Ph.D. in art history with an emphasis on the history of photography and film history at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. She has curated numerous exhibitions at MoPA, and worked with Manfred Heiting on Paul Outerbridge, Michael Gray/Lacock Abbey on First Photographs: William Henry Fox Talbot and The Birth of Photography, and the respective photographers in James Fee: The Peleliu Project, Phil Stern: A Life's Work, and Terry Falke: Observations in an Occupied Wilderness. Her most recent exhibition and catalogue, Breaking the Frame: Pioneering Women in Photojournalism, explored women working in the mass media before and during WWII. She is currently working on a book, Shooting Stars: War Photographers in Hollywood.

Kevin Messina   · Website
Founder and Publisher
Silas Finch Books
Kevin Messina is the founder and creative director of Silas Finch Books, an independent publisher of fine photography books, limited edition prints, and other artists' multiples. Kevin works closely with artists at all stages of their photographic projects, and can offer guidance in all aspects of preparing work for publication, presentation or sale. He is interested in seeing photographs that tell stories, particularly bodies of work with strong narrative content, whether that content is documentary or fictional, literal or abstract.

Leslie Rubinoff   · Website
Art Adviser
Leslie Rubinoff has been working in field of photography for the past 20 years Including galleries, photo editor for magazines and websites and photographers agent. Leslie work's with private clients who are either the novice or veteran collector with an emphasis on contemporary and emerging artists. She is open to reviewing all kinds of work including portraits, landscapes, abstract, color, B&W and more.

Karen Sinsheimer   · Website
Curator of Photography
Santa Barbara Museum of Art
Karen Sinsheimer has served as the Curator of Photography at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art since 1992. During her tenure she has organized twelve traveling exhibitions accompanied by publications, as well as numerous photographic exhibitions from the permanent collection. At present she serves on the Board of JGS, Inc., a non-profit foundation that has a growing contemporary photography collection. The foundation has made possible over sixty single-artist publications to date. Ms. Sinsheimer is interested in reviewing work by photographers who live on the Pacific Rim, including Latin America and the Far East, and she is particularly interested in artists who are investigating the intersections of art and science. She is not interested in reviewing commercial work.

Aline Smithson   · Website
Independent Curator and Writer
Aline Smithson writes and edits the blog, Lenscratch is a contributing writer for a variety of photography publications, and curates exhibitions for galleries and on-line magazines. Aline teaches workshops for emerging photographers through the Julia Dean Photo workshops and was nominated for Center's Excellence in Photographic Teaching Award in 2008 and 2009 and for the Santa Fe Prize in Photography in 2009. She was a 2009 Critical Mass juror and has the unique perspective actively participating on both sides of the reviewing table. Aline is looking for projects to feature on Lenscratch, and images to showcase in future curatorial efforts. She is open to all kinds of well-edited photography and processes.

Mary Virginia Swanson   · Website
Marketing Consultant
MV Swanson & Assoc.
Mary Virginia Swanson makes it her goal to help photographers find the strengths in their work and identify appreciative audiences for their prints, exhibitions, editorial and licensing placement. Swanson currently works individually with photographers as a marketing consultant, and frequently gives workshops and lectures on the subjects of marketing opportunities and awareness that have proven to aid photographers in moving their careers to the next level. She is happy to look at any work, be it work in progress or completed project and help with marketing ideas.

Amber Terranova   · Website
Photo Editor
Photo District News
Amber Terranova received her BFA in Photography from the School of Visual Arts in 2003. Since then she has focused her career on the editorial, working at New York Magazine, Outside Magazine and currently at Photo District News. Ms. Terranova is active in other areas of the photo industry including working on location for international commercial shoots with Creative-i Advertising agency and freelances as a photo consultant for emerging photographers. Ms. Terranova supports emerging photographers who are developing strong personal projects and seek editorial and commercial work. She is open to reviewing a broad spectrum of photography including travel, lifestyle, fashion, food, documentary, landscape, contemporary fine art, and personal projects. Ms. Terranova supports emerging photographers who are developing strong personal projects and seek editorial and commercial work. She is open to reviewing a broad spectrum of photography including travel, lifestyle, fashion, food, documentary, landscape, contemporary fine art, and personal projects.

Sara Terry   · Website
Founder
The Aftermath Project
Sara Terry is a former writer who became a photographer at a time in her life when she lost her faith in words. She is the founder of The Aftermath Project, a grant program which helps photographers cover the aftermath of conflict, and which is founded on the concept that "War is only half the story." Although this is her particular field of interest, she is interested in seeing all kinds of documentary photography and long-term projects; she can be of help in terms of networking and suggestions about publishing, distribution, grant writing, etc.

Allegra Wilde
Visual Strategist/Consultant
Allegra Wilde has more than 20 years of experience as a Branding, Business and Strategic Visual Consultant to artists, photographers, and other art based businesses in the commercial advertising, editorial and fine art communities. She was until 3 years ago the Director of Talent and Agent Branding at The Workbook. ((Allegra is the owner/moderator of 3 online industry forums: Art + Photo Agents Forum for commercial assignment artist's representatives, the Art Producers Forum for advertising agency art buyers and photo editors, and the Print Producer's Forum for print and film production companies and individuals. Allegra specializes in counseling photographers in the development and marketing of an original vision, as well as a unique subjective sales approach to selling one's photography for assignment or fine art. She would be most interested in reviewing the work of photographers who have made a commitment to professional photography as a career choice and particularly those who seek to broaden their reach to the commercial advertising, editorial, or fine-art marketplaces.

Questions
Email lwzorek@sfcp.org or call 505.984.8353.